Greatest albums of all time

[speedking59]

Bad Brains - Bad Brains

[Prospero]

Nikka... a star!

[Jericho]

No Johnny Cash on the list...Wot fukkery is this?

[Prospero]

If everyone on this site compiled their own lists I'll warrant no other one person here would agree with everything on it. But yeah no Johnny Cash - and those last five albums he made were majestic.

[CORVETTEDUDE]

This is a thread that could NEVER accumulate a Top 100 List that everyone would agree upon!!!!

[stan.smith]

This is a thread that could NEVER accumulate a Top 100 List that everyone would agree upon!!!!

Is there ever a thread like that?! lol

[stan.smith]

Music is too vast to put down on a list.

[timid1]

Number 1 for me , Definitely Maybe, Oasis ...... Brilliant IMO . Saw them at Wembley , best concert I've been to.

[Willie Escalade]

No hip-hop albums = bullshit list.

These "greatest-of-all-time" lists are pure opinion.

[Stavros]

A question raised by the list is whether or not albums match the performing abilities of the recording acts -there is no doubt that the biggest acts of the last 60 years have been Presley, The Beatles, The Stones, Pink Floyd, Dylan, Michael Jackson and Madonna -it is hard to know if The Beatles were any good live because noone could hear them; the Stones were revealed as mediocre when you could hear them; Pink Floyd developed a 'concept show' that moved music out of the clubs to the detriment of rock music generally until the advent of Punk, so choosing albums doesn't necessarily privilege the same acts as performers, Dylan isn't much of a singer, for example, but has written some enduring songs, as is also true of Leonard Cohen. These lists are created for the most part by nostalgia rather than artistic merit. As is my own.


If one sets aside Jazz and Classical Music, my choice would not reflect any trends but merely the ones I still listen to with pleasure.

Leonard Cohen -The Songs of Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen -Songs from a Room
Incredible String Band -The 5000 Spirits
Van Morrison -Astral Weeks
Bob Dylan -John Wesley Harding

What unites these albums is the quality of songwriting, because over time it is the songs that matter most.